ABOUT RI:

Relief International is an international non-profit organization that partners with communities impacted by conflict, climate change and disaster to save lives, build greater resilience and promote long-term health and wellbeing. Our team of more than 7,000 staff and local volunteers work in 15 countries across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, providing Health and Nutrition, WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene), Education and Livelihoods programming that creates the foundation for community resilience. We do this by working with local actors to develop safe and inclusive local programming that is evidence based, conflict sensitive, climate smart, and reaches those in need.

POSITION SUMMARY:

RI is seeking a Security Manager for Sudan who will be responsible for the implementation of RI’s Safety and Risk Management (SRM), ensuring and managing oversight of safety and access policies and strategies, developing contextual analysis, building capacity within the Sudan offices safety and access teams, and developing and implementing context appropriate RI safety protocols and procedures (SOPs) across RI’s field and program locations in Sudan. This position is based in Country Office with a significant portion of time spent visiting field locations and providing recommendations and guidance to RI’s Sudan Country Director.

The position requires that the SAD provides direct support to the Sudan Senior Management Team (SMT) and Country Director (CD) for the oversight for operations in Sudan. In addition, ensuring that he/she works closely with staff, partners, communities, and peers to enhance the capacity of the sub offices, providing routine and timely analysis and incident reports to the CD, deploying as needed in support of Country Office teams, and developing regionally consistent strategies for the management of safety and security.

Planning and Preparation

• Design, establish and maintain safety support systems, conducting scheduled and ad-hoc field visits at each program sites, including central and sub-offices and program delivery location for safety and access assessments, safety related audits and awareness training across Sudan.
• Conduct a comprehensive safety assessments including, but not only, with the local counterpart and audit of all existing safety and access policies and procedures and their application and practice by all staff at program sites, offices, residencies/guest houses, and with respect to all vehicles, drivers and standing SOPs; provides and implements recommendations in consultation with the CD to make changes in order to meet the compliancy with RI Field Operational Procedures, templates and SOPs.
   

Advice and Report

• Leads an on-going process of design, establishment, review of safety policies and procedures to ensure understanding, “buy -in “, and compliance by staff; routinely revises safety and access plans to adapt to evolving safety situation in conjunction with country counter parts and CD.
• Maps and reports safety incidents, ensures by weekly safety and access reports in all Sudan locations and understands trends and threats; facilitates the development of situation specific, coordinated evacuation plans; writes well-researched security incident reports for review by CD.

Strategy development

• Supports RI country teams with strategy in as whole.
• Set out a clear vision for knowledge and skills transfer to national staff.
• Work with the country team and regional PD leads to ensure funding for humanitarian access is built into all new awards.

Analysis and assessment

• Ensure that analysis of the Sudan context is kept relevant and up to date with RI programs. Advice CD, Area Manager(s) on any important developments. Advocate for contingency planning where necessary and support teams in thinking about scenario planning and trend analysis.
• Ensure application of situation appropriate rules and guidance per RI’s Field Security SOP’s, RI Global Safety & Safety and UNDSS; conducts visits to RI’s field project offices and residential sites in Sudan to assess safety and access conditions; develops comprehensive risk assessments in conjunction, but not only, with country counterparts, leading to the updating of effective safety plans, train colleagues on the safety plans and ensure compliance.
• Ensure humanitarian access approaches are responsive to local context and include overarching community engagement components.
• Provide relevant input on all existing and new program concerning Sudan both with pre analysis prior to go no go decisions as well as full involvement in budgeting at the time of proposal writing to ensure staff safety needs are met.

Capacity-building and gap-filling

• Train, supervise and mentor national and international (if applicable) country safety staff/focal points. Recommend and/or provides staff training on safety and access in a proactive and positive manner that promotes inclusion, participation, and leadership among the entire RI team, including expatriates, relocatable and local national staff.
• Takes a lead on very regular safety and access drills for support offices inside Sudan and supporting hubs: conduct safety and access drills, trains country counterparts in how to conduct drills, and ensures that counterparts implement drills regularly.
• Work with programs and operations colleagues in ensuring constructive relations with de facto authorities at provincial and district levels.

Coordination

• Ensure RI is linked via all inter-agency and safety & access coordination lists and fora to ensure RI safety presence in the INGO community within the areas of operation.
• Liaises with local and regional UN & inter-agency safety personnel on safety & access matters for country programs; advises CD, on safety issues; provides safety briefings and updates for RI staff and visitors.
   

RI SRM Compliance

• Ensure all Sudan areas that compliance is met. At a minimum biannual Safety Risk Assessment (SRA) for all areas concerned are updated as are country safety plans, RIGSS etc. Further to this the implementation of compliance is considered in all areas as mandatory. Ensure that Sudan RI teams do regularly comply and carry out evacuation drills, head counts, travel authorization etc.

AOB

• Other duties as advised

• Minimum Master's degree with demonstrated experience in safety and access management in the humanitarian sector.
• Proven minimum of six (6) years’ experience in a similar role with equal responsibilities within NGO, UN or IO in high-risk country settings. Sudan experience is required.
• Proven abilityin safety & access management and crisis management in an unstableand insecure environment. Previous experiences managinghumanitarian crisis/emergencies an added advantage.
• Effective technical/instructional skills.
• Strong analytical and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiplecomplex tasks independently.
• Strong leadership and communication (interpersonal, verbal and written)skills.
• Excellent computerskills with solid knowledge of MS Office.
• Experience of delivering training.
• Experience in a multi-cultural environment necessary.
• Experience in conducting assessments necessary.
• Fit to travel.

RI Values:

We uphold the Humanitarian Principles: humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and operational independence. We affirmatively engage the most vulnerable communities. We value:

• Inclusiveness
• Transparency and Accountability
• Agility and Innovation
• Collaboration
• Sustainability